True equality has never existed in the United States. From the creation of the Declaration of Independence to the present time, the United States Legislators have failed to create a legal system free of inequalities. This essay will seek to demonstrate that gender-bias in the Criminal Justice System exists. This essay cannot be comprehensive; therefore I have chosen to focus on the inequalities of females and males during the sentencing process, in vocational rehabilitation, and in medical treatment.

Some feminists’ literature supports these inequalities with statistics, such as; females that kill their mates are sentenced to an average of 15-20 years in prison, while men on an average receives two to six years without citing any evidence. The United States Justice Department, however, notes the opposite is true. “Males receive 16.5 years while the females obtain a more lenient six-year penalty for the same crime. In instances of spousal murder, females are acquitted 12.9% of the time, while males are acq

Female prisoners brought legal action to obtain equity with male prisoners. The court ordered the corrections department to provide female prisoners with equal access to educational and vocational programs available to male prisoners. But the court, refused to order the department to provide female prisoners with equivalent access to work, recreation and religious programs, holding that because there were far fewer female than male prisoner it was “hardly surprising, let alone evidence of discrimination, that smaller correctional facilities offer fewer programs than larger ones.” (Amnesty International).

While there have been small steps made towards improving inequality within the criminal justice system, there is still a need to change the treatment of male and female prisoners in the concerns of sentencing, vocational/educational rehabilitation and medical treatment. My final thought, is that, the criminal justice system need to acknowledge human value of prisoners as members of society, males as well as females.

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